This week, on the media considers the stories we tell ourselves about how we get around.

One of their fellow coworkers had been walking over two hours to work every day.

He walks six miles in the Texas heat to get back and forth to work.

Bad transit or lack of transit is used to enforce segregation.

In Detroit, they have struggled to create a regional transit system for four decades.

Welcome to the future of grocery shopping.

Food delivered to your doorstep in a self-driving car.

They were selling us ideas about how our lives would be built around cars.

And so it's not in their interest to think very hard about what the unintended

consequences of that would be? There needs to be a radical shift in how we think about personal

transportation. More of us need to be getting on public buses and getting out of private

automobiles, becoming less idiotic, I would say.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. Given that Labor Day weekend is among the busiest for auto travel,

we are re-airing an episode we first broadcast last winter,

a show entirely devoted to an examination of some of transportation's most cherished media tropes.

And we'll start with a story of Good Samaritans and gratitude.

Some people drive. Some people ride bicycles. I happen to walk.

Twelve miles from his home in Plano to his job in McKinney.

It seemed like I walk a mile and God would carry me in the restaurant. Lessing away.

News of a friendly encounter with the McKinney officer offering a ride spread quickly.

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